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Thanks for the reply! So Excel maybe is not as fast as the meme would suggest, I suppose.

I agree with you. I love ggplot2. And I'm good at it. So it's my software of choice when doing data analysis and when making graphs.

However, I understand that there's an upfront cost to pay to use it: learning to code, tidying data, etc..

And beyond that, I don't really do data analysis with spreadsheet software like Excel or LibreCalc. So I don't know if a proficient LibreCalc user would be able to compete with a proficient ggplot2 user.

Honest question: do you think this could improve with practice? Or does the ggplot workflow necessarily makes it all slower?

If you're going to download it, try the torrent option! That way, you can give back to the community that gives you LibreOffice.

I’ve always poured it out, but I’ve never really sat and thought why…

Not a troll post.

Fair enough. I'll take your question seriously.

Without any context, it sounds as if everything that you're perceiving right now is shit. Maybe your relationships are strained and you feel lonely or guilty. Maybe the news hits you harder every day. Maybe money is tight. Maybe you've suffered a great loss. Maybe nothing has happened at all and you're sitting there, contemplating whether life is worth it. I don't know your situation.

And whatever it is, it's valid. Heck, I sometimes feel like life is shit.

Now, I'm not here to say we should look at reality with rose-colored glasses or to look at reality with naive optimism. No. I'm here to say that we have a choice. We can choose what to focus on and how to respond to reality.

Is it really true that "everything is shit"? Is the fact that your body has managed, against all odds, to sustain your life shit? Is the fact that humans can grow and change shit? Is the fact that we can be better as people shit?

Still, shit happens. And we have to be ready to accept that. Regardless of how much shit there is, we can always choose how to respond to it.

For one, we play a massive role in our interpretation of shit. There's solid science behind this. You could look at theories of cognition such as the Theory of Constructed Emotion, Relational Frame Theory, or even the shallow but effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy frameworks. All of those theories think it's crucial to notice the lens that you and I are looking at the world through. Not only should we notice the lens, but sometimes we should clean it or direct it elsewhere. Otherwise we spend our whole lives stooped over a pile of crap, when we could stand, look around, and notice the world around us from a different perspective.

But that's not the only thing that matters. We don't just want to see the world differently. We also want to live valued lives. Once again, this is possible regardless of how much shit there is. How so? Well, what kind of person do you want to be? A kind person? A person that is reflexive and open minded? A person that notices and appreciates beauty when it appears? A person who is proactive about their future and that of others? A person who is compassionate towards others? A person that's curious about the world and how to improve it?

It's not easy, being kind, appreciative, and proactive when you're bogged down by shit. But you're not alone. There's brilliant and insightful people who have dedicated their lives to finding out how to do it. If you're interested, I'm happy to talk about empirical ways of doing it. For now, it's more important to ask what the alternative is. Is a life spent stooping over shit a good life?

Before getting in the shower, what is keeping you from getting in?

Something similar happens to me. I get shocked every time I meet someone who was born in the USSR.

Ah. I see that it seems as if I’m saying that hand-washing is the result of a theory of cognition, and that this theory of cognition suggests that hand-washing has been deeply ingrained in our psyches for millenia, somehow eliciting the results from the experiments.

I am not suggesting that. Sorry for not having been clear before. I’m tired so I’m sorry if this response is not clear as well. I’m happy to clarify any further misunderstandings.

This is the theory that I’m referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnSHpBRLJrQ (of course, there are academic publications on Relational Frame Theory, but this video shows its practical implications quite well)

Learn it in one. Derive it in two. Put it in networks, and that’s what you’ll do.

We have relational frames surrounding hand-washing. We also have relational frames for thousands of other thoughts and behaviors. When those two (hand-washing frames with other frames) combine, they can affect the way we think and act in ways that are novel and perhaps unusual.

Please let me know if this isn’t clear.

Indeed, it is a small sample size.

However, I think it’s possible that these results are true. If you understand relational frame theory, then you can see how the act of washing hands can activate some schemas or deactivate others.

Seen through this lens, the results of these experiments are not special, but are simply implications of an already established theory of cognition.

Depends on whether the team I am in uses Scrum or not.

If the team uses Scrum, everything is on the backlog, so rarely do I need personal lists.

If the team doesn't use Scrum, then I set up my own personal Scrum board. That way, I can deal better with people coming in and saying "hey, snek_boi, this task that I just thought of is urgent and I need you to drop everything you're doing and do this now". With the Scrum board, I can then ask them if what they need me to do is more important than whatever's on top of my personal backlog, and often they themselves realize their 'urgent' task is actually not that urgent.

Since you asked about software, I've used Taiga and Notion.

Also, I used to do GTD religiously, but now I mainly use Scrum because it forces me to ruthlessly prioritize. Since you asked about apps, I'll tell you that when I did GTD, I used Joplin with Syncthing (or some combination of Syncthing and a local notes app). I switched to StandardNotes before stopping doing GTD altogether. Maybe I'll come back to GTD in the future.

I also almost started Bullet Journaling, buying the journal and all, but a friend of mine was quite depressed and seemed to need it more so I gave it all to him.

Power and Progress and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and others.
There’s also Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel. It’s quite technical, so many won’t find it engaging. I loved it.
Violence and Social Orders by North, Barry, and Weingast.

I see how they didn't answer the question. However, maybe they're not answering your question but commenting on "Brave is a great product".

This. My partner’s office is stuck with “it has to be inkjet and not toner", and on January their printer got clogged…

This sounds terrifying! Could you point me to sources that touch upon this?

Huh. I see the idea of divide and conquer. But I got a bit lost with "killing bazillions of people as some kind of a ‘market reset’ to drive up shareholder value". I'm thinking of the black plague, which killed millions, but that increased worker power because survivors had less competition and therefore could demand higher wages.

I read that, originally, Caps Lock was supposed to be the mode-changing key. For some historical reason that changed to Escape.

There’s a Know How or How To (I don’t remember the name of the YouTube channel; EDIT: @executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de found it. The video is linked in their comment) that explains why we used to believe moderate alcohol consumption is healthy.

Turns out, those surveys only ask “How many drinks do you have a week?” Notice they tacitly ask about the present, how many drinks now and not in the past. If you were a very heavy drinker in the past and got sick from it, you likely stopped drinking altogether.

Not only that, but people with chronic illness many times choose to not drink at all.

These two populations (sick ex-drinkers and chronically sick non-drinkers) make it seem as if not drinking is not that healthy. But remove those groups from the data analysis or control for past alcohol usage and pre-existing conditions and you end up with a clear pattern: drinking alcohol in any quantity is unhealthy. The more, the worse.

Sorry for the lack of sources; I’m on mobile. I think there’s a WHO report titled “There’s no safe amount of alcohol” or something like that.

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Have you ever quit Lemmy for more than a few days?

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You retrieve your carton of yoghurt from the fridge to find a layer of liquid whey on top- do you A) pour it out or B) mix it in?

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What's a time when you felt like you woke up and the universe had just changed?

TIL - There are Surprising Psychological Benefits of Hand Washing

TIL - There are Surprising Psychological Benefits of Hand Washing

How do you manage tasks / to do lists at your job?

Are there any good books which are both accurate and engaging which talk about human world history?

CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]

What do you think Elon Musk is actually doing?

What do you think Elon Musk is actually doing?

Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one?

How to avoid arthritis later in life?

How to avoid arthritis later in life?